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The Coaching Lab: Health, Wellness & Performance (Brad Cooper, PhD)

The Coaching Lab: Health, Wellness & Performance (Brad Cooper, PhD)

Written by: Brad Cooper PhD (Catalyst Coaching)
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Welcome to The Coaching Lab podcast, your trusted source for engaging, evidence-based, thought-provoking health, wellness & high-performance insights for those looking to improve their lives (or coaches/clinicians looking to enhance client outcomes). The Coaching Lab is the evidence-based journey toward better! If you've been looking for a health & wellness podcast that avoids the fluff and the headline-chasing fads while providing practical, real-world guidance, you just found it. We bring together the world's foremost experts, from world-class researchers and best-selling authors to elite athletes and coaches, sharing their insights about how to make the most of your personal and professional life. If you're looking for an entertaining format to help optimize your own health, wellness and performance through such evidence-based practices, this is the place for you!

The Coaching Lab podcast is hosted by Dr. Brad Cooper, who brings a uniquely expansive background to the table. He has a PhD in performance psychology along with Masters degrees in both physical therapy (MSPT) and business (MBA) and a Bachelors degree in biology. He is CEO/Co-founder of Catalyst Coaching, an internationally recognized speaker, and elite masters endurance athlete (11 time Ironman, including 4 times at the Hawaii Ironman World Championship, winner of the 2-person 3,000 cycling Race Across America and 2:47 marathoner). Most importantly, he's husband to Suzanna (celebrating 30 years of marriage) and Dad to three amazing kids, now ages 30, 28 and 25. You can tap into Dr. Cooper's "NOT DONE YET!" (Fitness & Life After 50) publication free of charge at https://betterpath.substack.com/

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Episodes
  • The Business of Coaching: Systems, Stabilizers and Success

    The Business of Coaching: Systems, Stabilizers and Success
    Mar 2 2026

    This is the final episode of our special 3-part series on the business of health & wellness coaching.

    Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/

    Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/

    Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here.

    YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel

    Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.com
    Twitter: @Catalyst2Thrive
    Website: CatalystCoaching360.com

    If you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.

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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Food, Fitness & Free Will? (Bonus Episode)

    Food, Fitness & Free Will? (Bonus Episode)
    Feb 16 2026

    Do you believe in free will? Really? Our answer to that questions influences SO much of our journey ahead.

    Text version available here

    Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/

    Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/

    Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here.

    YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel

    Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.com
    Twitter: @Catalyst2Thrive
    Website: CatalystCoaching360.com

    If you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.

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    7 mins
  • Brad Stulberg: The Way of Excellence

    Brad Stulberg: The Way of Excellence
    Jan 29 2026

    In a world of constant noise, endless distraction, and performative busyness, what does it mean to pursue true excellence? Not hustle-for-hustle’s-sake kind—but the kind rooted in values, meaning, and sustainable high performance. Today’s guest is one of the clearest voices on that question: Brad Stulberg—bestselling author, performance coach, and researcher on sustainable excellence. Brad is a rare returning guest to The Coaching Lab for good reason. His work regularly appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, and he serves on faculty at the University of Michigan. His new book, The Way of Excellence, reframes excellence not as a finish line—but as a process of mastery, meaning, and becoming. Drawing on modern science, timeless philosophy, and real-world stories of elite performers, Brad shows us how to integrate mastery and mattering—so we can perform at our best without burning out or losing what truly matters. In this conversation, we explore:

    · Why excellence is not about outcomes—but about process

    · How to build real confidence through consistency

    · The difference between “pseudo-excellence” and the real thing

    · How focus, discipline, and values alignment create sustained performance

    · And how to pursue greatness without sacrificing well-being, relationships, or meaning

    Whether you’re an athlete, coach, leader, entrepreneur, or simply someone who wants to live with greater intention, this episode delivers a clear, grounded roadmap for what it really means to be at your best—day after day.

    Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/

    Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/

    Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here.

    YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel

    Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.com
    Twitter: @Catalyst2Thrive
    Website: CatalystCoaching360.com

    If you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.

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    1 hr and 1 min
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